--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Ok, this is an stupid issue, but I find quite
curious
that this topic was initially raised by the french wiki, that so many french people expressed their dislike of this method, that final conclusion was
to
drop the count system, that we indicated in our
talk
pages that the count system was changed
just to find oneself totally ridiculous many months later discovering that *nothing* has changed and
that
the old system is still the one working.
Basically here's what happened:
- I saw the silliness, decided to make a change, and
announced my plan.
- Some people decided we had to hold a vote first.
- All momentum was destroyed.
- The vote, eventually, turned out pretty much as I
had planned to do anyway.
May I suggest that next time, you do the change very quietly. Pick up some trusted people (I am your servant) to distract other wikipedians so you can silently update the soft, and perhaps nobody will notice ? :-)
- The latest working code did end up with the new
count system, but was not at that time installed, having other experimental code.
- Everything was supposed to move to the new server,
with the latest code.
- The English wiki got moved to the new server to
load test, etc.
- Lee announced we were going to move & upgrade the
rest, then vanished for a few weeks.
- I haven't had time to do it either.
At some point I do want to get everything upgraded at least, but haven't had a chance to double-check that the CVS version is not currently broken with experimental code.
(Incidentally, I've been having trouble with my settings for wikitech-l; I thought I had gotten everything right, but it's still not sending me mail except for digests. Off to configure again... So, if I haven't responded to something dreadfully important, please remind me. I may not have seen it.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Perhaps Clonaid could be the first for donations to the new foundation ? The donation would "not" be money, but Brion multiple duplication...
Thanks Brion
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